§ MR. HALPIN (Clare, W.)To ask the hon. Member for South Somerset as representing the President of the Board of Agriculture, whether, in view of the number of calves that have died from the disease of hoose in West Clare, he will give instructions to the agricultural instructor of West Clare to show the small farmers in his circuit, who are unable to pay a veterinary surgeon, how to perform the intertracheal injection for hoose in calves, which is so rife in the district owing to the wet soil and humidity of the climate.
§ (Answered by Mr. Bryce.) Myhon. friend has asked me to answer this Question, which concerns the Department 1248 of Agriculture in Ireland. The agricultural instructors are not qualified to give demonstrations in intertracheal injections; such operations should only be undertaken by a veterinary surgeon. The methods of prevention of hoose are set forth in the Department's leaflet, No. 44, a copy of which I have sent to the hon. Member. The Department consider that the treatment described in that leaflet is more efficacious than the operation mentioned.